Application Support Specialist - Equity Derivatives

You will be supporting the Sophis application for the equity derivatives business, a critical application used for life cycle management of trades from trade feed to PnL and risk management and settlement.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Quickly addressing issues pertaining to front office, middle office, and back office that impact the business' ability to perform daily functions
• Driving improved stability and higher quality of data delivered to front office, middle office, and back office
• Contributing to and improving the configuration of the monitoring platform ITRS, while actioning triggered events
• Documenting new issues that occur and maintaining/enhancing existing documentation to ensure consistent steps performed for known issues
• Coordinating between several groups to remediate issues (Support, Development, Analytics, Quants)
• Investigating pricing failures and resolving issues utilizing various skills including SQL, Unix, Windows
• Developing scripts to automate processes using Powershell and other scripting languages
• Engaging in platform-related projects which include vulnerability remediation, business continuity practice, and automation of day-to-day tasks
• Performing change and release practices to deploy proprietary and vendor-based software
• Weekend checkouts on rotation will be required to ensure a stable start of the week
• Rotation of shift schedules might require late shifts (10-7 PM EST)

To succeed in this role, you will need:

• 3+ years of experience supporting applications on equity derivatives or similar business
• SQL language (3 years, Oracle preferred)
• Python scripting experience (1-2 years)
• Monitoring experience of high-availability trading applications, batch processing, or similar
• Job Scheduler experience (i.e., BMC Control-M, Autosys, Cron, etc.)
• Windows Server (3 years)
• Linux experience (3 years)

Nice-to-have skills include:

• ITRS Geneos Monitoring Software
• Experience supporting risk management and analytics applications/infrastructure
• Kubernetes/Docker experience
• GRID/Datasynapse
• Databricks
• Kafka

In terms of benefits, you can expect:

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• Opportunities to do challenging work
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities